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31.		Life in Timbuktu: how the ancient city of gold is slowly turning to dust (theguardian.com)
		77 points by hownottowrite on Sept 19, 2014 \| 1 comment
32.		Particle detector finds hints of dark matter in space (newsoffice.mit.edu)
		84 points by 2510c39011c5 on Sept 19, 2014 \| 15 comments
33.		A Conceptual Look at Om (ClojureScript for React.js) (josf.info)
		78 points by lkrubner on Sept 19, 2014 \| 25 comments
34.		OWASP Testing Guide 2014 (owasp.org)
		63 points by SanderMak on Sept 19, 2014 \| 5 comments
35.		Home Depot breach bigger than Target at 56M cards (reuters.com)
		67 points by anigbrowl on Sept 19, 2014 \| 51 comments
36.		Ask HN: Are there startups that went open-source and succeed?
		67 points by wonderingman on Sept 19, 2014 \| 59 comments
37.		Climate Science Is Not Settled (wsj.com)
		61 points by T-A on Sept 19, 2014 \| 69 comments
38.		Programmers are hipster librarians (omniref.com)
		67 points by timr on Sept 19, 2014 \| 43 comments
39.		Using Vagrant and Chef for Reproducible, Isolated Rails Development Environments (gofullstack.com)
		57 points by tristanoneil on Sept 19, 2014 \| 20 comments
40.		Emojilisp (emojilisp.com)
		57 points by lelf on Sept 19, 2014 \| 9 comments
41.		Push-pull Functional Reactive Programming (2009) (conal.net)
		54 points by tosh on Sept 19, 2014 \| 1 comment
42.		Trial by Fire: Extreme rituals forge intense social bonds (aeon.co)
		53 points by Thevet on Sept 19, 2014 \| 42 comments
43.		Why Far-Flung Parts of the Internet Broke Today (renesys.com)
		51 points by quicksilver03 on Sept 19, 2014 \| 4 comments
44.		Peter Thiel Says Computers Haven’t Made Our Lives Significantly Better (technologyreview.com)
		53 points by finisterre on Sept 19, 2014 \| 61 comments
45.		iPhone 6 Plus Teardown (ifixit.com)
		45 points by hack4supper on Sept 19, 2014 \| 19 comments
46.		Show HN: View and diff files in ZFS snapshots (github.com/j-keck)
		50 points by j-keck on Sept 19, 2014 \| 6 comments
47.		Neal Stephenson's “CLANG” Kickstarter video game officially cancelled (gamepolitics.com)
		46 points by zacharycohn on Sept 19, 2014 \| 36 comments
48.		A Challenge from Freeman Dyson (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
		45 points by mr_tyzik on Sept 19, 2014 \| 6 comments
49.		Subway history: Don't be early (law.harvard.edu)
		42 points by clarkm on Sept 19, 2014 \| 14 comments
50.		View Issue/Pull Request Buttons for Gmail (github.com/blog)
		44 points by mastahyeti on Sept 19, 2014 \| 4 comments
51.		Asm.js under consideration by Internet Explorer (modern.ie)
		40 points by azakai on Sept 19, 2014 \| 3 comments
52.		U.S. judge awards $40.7M in SEC case over Bitcoin Ponzi scheme (reuters.com)
		37 points by uptown on Sept 19, 2014 \| 20 comments
53.		Big O Notation: Using not-boring math to measure code's efficiency (interviewcake.com)
		51 points by gameguy43 on Sept 19, 2014 \| 25 comments
54.		Kickstarter Updates Terms of Use Section Related to Failed Projects (techcrunch.com)
		41 points by BobbyVsTheDevil on Sept 19, 2014 \| 13 comments
55.		Handling Errors in IcedCoffeeScript (maxtaco.github.io)
		38 points by jashkenas on Sept 19, 2014 \| 12 comments
56.		Simplifying 0install's solver with OCaml's functors (roscidus.com)
		37 points by lpw25 on Sept 19, 2014 \| 9 comments
57.		Ask HN: What has been your experience with self-taught engineers?
		37 points by freework on Sept 19, 2014 \| 43 comments
58.		Shitty iOS 8 Widgets (shittyios8widgets.tumblr.com)
		36 points by AshFurrow on Sept 19, 2014 \| 22 comments
59.		6 Reasons to Use Netbeans IDE (raed.tn)
		35 points by mirchada993 on Sept 19, 2014 \| 46 comments
60.		Kicked Off Facebook, and Wondering Why (nytimes.com)
		37 points by todayiamme on Sept 19, 2014 \| 48 comments
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